I was doing a planing gybe and flipped the rig and somehow ended up lying on my back on the back of the board as it planed out the other side..
Somehow got to my feet and carried on..
. Even had some people watching on the shore but as non sailors they probably thought I was doing normal sailing..
Somehow got to my feet and carried on... Even had some people watching on the shore but as non sailors they probably thought I was doing normal sailing..
Once at Pozo, I over-rotated a double forward and by accident it was a triple.
I woke up shortly thereafter and thought it was a nice dream....
Not sure Id call my story a save as such but here goes...
Coming in to do a nice flatwater planing gybe, took my foot out of rear strap, placed it on other side of board foot slips and suddenly im sitting on my board still planing, still hooked onto the sail.
kept going for a short while before I figured the least hurtful way out was to ditch the gear and fall off backward. the board kept going for 10 or so metres before the rig hit the water
get up look around (heh heh.... good, no one saw me
) and ran over to my gear
Back in high school, standing at a bus stop in town, trying to be nice, I asked this rather large lady when she was expecting...
as time slowed and I caught her horror at her fatness being mistaken for pregnancy....
I quickly added, ....the next bus to arrive
I was involved in a salvation of a cargo ship. 45NM off x-mas island MSC Denise reported a mayday and she was taking in water. Expecting a salvage team to be at least 4 days away, we were stationed there and arived with in 5 hrs. Upon arival the transom of the 31000t Cargo ship was below the water line, engine room completely full of water, all power and electrics disabled and drifting towards the coast of x-mas island. 60hrs later of non stop pumping of water from the ships bowels she was towable and 10NM off the coast. found out later that the crew were trying to sink it for insurance purposes.
Somehow got to my feet and carried on... Even had some people watching on the shore but as non sailors they probably thought I was doing normal sailing..
(heh heh.... good, no one saw me) and ran over to my gear
I bet you fixed the non slip..
I have had some great saves over the years racing motorbikes but I also had a lot of non saves too.
In my early 20s I was in a very crowded pub with mates arms reach from the bar. Just bought a couple of schooners turned around and handed a beer to one of my mates. Someone behind me accidentally bumped me and I lost grip of my schooner (held two fingers and thumb near rim) and it dropped to the floor, hit the carpet still vertical and bugger all beer spilt. We all looked at the glass then each other and burst out laughing. Amazing.
The Specials (well Neville Staples version) gig a few years ago in Sydney
Two muppets (sorry elmo) in their early twenties in front of me NOT dancing
In front of the muppets is two blokes mid to late forties who are as big as wallaby front rowers...both wore grins from ear to ear and were dancing like their lives depended on it...
Front Rower one accidently bumps girl muppet. Apologises profusely. Boy muppet gets all angry. Front rower one and two apologise.
Muppet boy turns to me expecting a sympathetic ear - Didnt get it -"everyone is here to to dance ,not fight or stand still mate"
Five minutes later
Front Rower two accidently bumps boy muppet. Before front rower has even turned to say anything I see muppet boy loading a punch - I grab his arm which then propells me between Muppets and front rowers.
This is seen by security plus a stack of people - muppet boy tries throwing a few at the two props - who could eat him for breakfast - but none land as I have ended up standing in between.
Result - security hauls off muppets - thus saving muppets from Wallaby front row
Everyone has a wow of a night dancing - not concerned with Muppets and seeing something incredible
Everytime Front rowers go to the bar (often) they return with a drink for yours truly and thank me from not having their night spoilt
Totally unrelated to windsurfing - but my best save ever.....
the best is when you go for a floaty jump and you start going forward unintentially and let the back hand go and it justs corrects in time
Some years ago I was giving a scientific presentation in the US. At the end I put up a slide of Perth to show where I was from. To my horror the slide was upside down, but to Americans, who think of us as the land downunder, it was brilliant. Brought the house down and made my presentation very memorable.
Love it!
Ben555's post reminded me of how I was once saved myself by random chance.
A long while ago as a young buck, I went to a Schutzenfest, the German shooting/beer festival. Guns and liquor...not just for Texans.
Back then it was held in a quaint SA town called Handorf in the hills. The festival was also very popular with the biker set. By night fall I was truly sauced and had lost my friends, and now began to make my way back to camp through the busy township.
As I passed a darkened alley, I could dimly see two blokes had a third bailed up against the wall. Overcome by some fuzzy sense of civil duty, or possibly double-digit 1litre steins, I stumbled down the alleyway asking loudly "What's going on here?". One broke off and approached me reaching into his coat. Lucky to be seventy kilos back then I was the smallest guy in that alley by a long way, and having trouble focusing.
The best outcome happened.
He flipped a badge and shoved it in my face and told me in no uncertain terms to "F*** off."
Which I promptly did.
The next day sober I played through all the possible alternative outcomes that might have happened. None ended so well as the actual.
